TYSON FURY has declared that he will prove Anthony Joshua is beatable by knocking him out in just four rounds.
The self-proclaimed Gypsy King is edging towards a return to the ring after more than two years out.
Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn has insisted that Fury’s fight with Joshua will happen this year.
And the 29-year-old, who has been knuckling down in the gym, is brimming with confidence ahead of the potential showdown.
When asked if viewers will witness anything new on his comeback, Fury told Pound for Pound Podcast: “Yeah, I think you are.
“I’m going to make this bold statement – if I get the AJ fight, I’m going to make it a 4 round fight.
“Either he’s going to go or I’m going to go, he can’t underestimate my power and my size and my strength.
“I may not look like a body builder and I probably can’t lift heavy weights, but you get in front of me and you’ll see how strong I am, when I can push and shove and pull you all over the ring.”
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He added: “I don’t look for power in my fight’s, I never do I never look to load up, I always box and move and slip and slide.
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“Because at the end of the day it’s the sweet science, but in the AJ fight I want to make it a 4 round fight.
“I want to make it a war, I want to make it a Tommy Hearns vs Marvin Hagler remake, but heavyweight division.
“Either I’ll go to sleep or he will go to sleep.
“And to be honest, I don’t give a flying f*** If it’s me or him – someone’s going.
“If I want to look for power, Emanuel Steward said I was right up there with Wladimir Klitschko – there was nothing in it in power.”
But before coming up against the Gypsy King, Joshua will be fighting Joseph Parker on March 31.
The British bruiser will be putting his WBA (Super) and IBF titles on the line against the unbeaten WBO heavyweight champion.
And Fury has stated his intentions to prove to the boxing world that Joshua is beatable.
“I want to show everybody that Anthony Joshua ain’t invincible he ain’t some big unbearable man, he’s just a big man who can get knocked out and I want to show everybody that I’m the one who’s going to do it to him.
“From round one I’m going to go straight at him and put it straight on him because if I start boxing and moving it’s a no contest, he ain’t got no chance.
“People don’t want to see that,” Fury said saying how boxing fans don’t want to see someone get outboxed. “People want to see fireworks and Tyson Fury of 2018 wants to give them fireworks.
“They clearly don’t appreciate sweet-science which would be a no contest, it’ll probably be a boring fight if I slowed the pace right down and do what I want to do.
“It’ll be so boring if I wanted it to be, but the fact that I want to go in there and meet fire-with-fire because I believe I can beat him anyway you want to, toe-to-toe, boxing, jabbing, stand in the middle of the ring – any type of fighting you can think of I can beat him in because I’m a true breed fighting man and he’s manufactured.”
Fury is hopeful that he will be able to secure the Joshua fight as his first fight after more than two years out.
“I want to try and get AJ in the ring.
“As I don’t want to risk him getting beat by anybody else.
“I fancy Parker and that’s being gospel.
“The reasons why I think Parker could do it is because he’s young and ambitious, he punches hard and he fight’s excellent against someone who stands still and don’t move.
“Another thing is I’ve never met a Māori that ain’t tough their all tough as feet.”
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